By Joanna Putman
Police1
CHICAGO — Chicago police officials have announced a renewed focus on officer wellness as one of the agency’s main goals for 2025, the Chicago Tribune reported.
“We have to make sure that our officers are well — mentally and physically — so that we are putting the best possible product out into the community,” Commissioner Larry Snelling said at a meeting with the Civilian Office of Police Accountability on Dec. 12. “If we are not treating our officers well, we cannot expect our officers to treat others well.”
The department uses Lexipol’s Cordico wellness app, which “[provides] personnel in stressful occupations and their family members with on-demand access to confidential, relevant and effective wellness resources created by leading experts.”
Aside from wellness, Snelling outlined five key goals, including ensuring constitutional policing, completing a long-delayed workforce allocation study, fostering community relationships, aiding crime victims and clarifying department policy on associations with extremist or biased organizations, according to the report.
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